From owner-cvs-all Sun Jul 11 17:57: 0 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 958D414D4A; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 17:56:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA32243; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 20:54:51 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 20:54:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Nik Clayton Cc: Amancio Hasty , Jeremy Lea , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Warner Losh , Peter Wemm , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/linux-devel - Imported sources In-Reply-To: <19990712005616.B53739@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 04:28:44PM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > Your comments are well taken . > > > > One way of training new committers is to have a manual or a web page in > > addition to a learning or phasing period as you have suggested. > > I thought the idea was that each new committer had a mentor. Instead > of the new committer hitting the tree directly, they ran each change they > wanted to make past their mentor for the first couple of weeks instead? > The mentor could then go over it and point out any style bugs, or general > errors, before they hit the tree. > > This has certainly been the case on doc/ for the past year or so, and > has (IMHO) worked well. I still remember the moment of trepidation when > I first strayed out of doc/ and started committing doc related ports. > The image of a thousand pairs of eyes, all carefully scrutinising the > cvs-* mailing lists stays with you for some time. . . I have a mentor, but I really haven't used him much. I've definitely learned from him, but I've not done anything that would raise controversy (much :) When I get a bit of controversy, it's usually from bde ;) but that way, I learn quite a lot from him (like KNF being a tricky bastard). Everyone can always use someone to get help from, which I very readily admit. But not everyone really needs explicit hand-holding. Just don't look at my goofed first commits.... =) > > N > -- > [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, > non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs > the links. > -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> > > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message